Spark-arrester.



No. 694,228. Y Patented Een.. 25, 1902.

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SPARK ARRESTER.

(Application led Nov. 2, 1901.

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UNITED STATES ATENT VESLEY I. ALLEN AND JOHN E. II. BROWNE, OFALBUQUERQUE, TERRI- TORY OF NElV MEXICO, ASSIGNORS OF ONE-THIRD TO MAXE. BECKER, OF ALBUQUERQUE, TERRITORY OF NEV MEXICO.

SPARK=ARRESTER.

SPECFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 694,228, dated February25, 1902. Application filed November 2, 1901. Serial No. 80,890. (Nomodel.)

To all whom, it may concern: in the top of the part 4. The top of thepart Be it known that we, WESLEY P. ALLEN 4 is hinged to the body, sothat said top may and JOHN E.H.BROWNE,citizens of the United be readilyswung open when it is found nec- 5o States, and residents ofAlbuquerque, in the essary to clean out the arrester or for clean- 5county of Bernalillo and Territory of New ing or arranging the flues.

Mexico, have invented a new and Improved Extended over the sievematerial 6, which Spark-Arrester, beinga complete front end of is shownas convexed, is a hood 7, of sieve a. railroad-locomotive, of which thefollowing material,which is also convexed and extended 5 5 is a full,clear, and exact description. toaconsiderable distance above the top ofthe 1o This invention relates to improvements in exhaust-pipe 8. Thishood 7 is also hinged spark-arresters for locomotive-engines; and to thetop of the part 4 and is also closed by the object is to provide aspark-arrester of means of a bolt or otherwise. By this means simpleconstruction that may be placed in a the hood may be swung down to clearthe 6o locomotive at a comparatively small cost and lower sieve. Theexhaust-Hue 8 extends en- 15 in which the forcing of the product ofcombustirely through the arrester-that is, it extends tion through theboiler-fines will force the cinthrough an opening in the bottom Wall ofders through the wire-netting, extinguishing the arrester--and thenozzle portion extends the sparks, the iine cinders beingthen forcedthrough the top wall. 65 out of the smoke-stack by the exhaust from Inoperation the live sparks or cinders zo the engine. forced through theflues 3 will pass upward We will describe a spark-arrester embodyto thenetting, where the cinders will be finely ing our invention and thenpoint out the novel broken and the parts extinguished. These features inthe appended claims. fine cinders will then be drawn outward 7oReference is to be had to the accompanying through the sieve material,and the exhaust- 25 drawings, forming a part of this specification,steam will carry the same through the smoke in which similar charactersof reference indistack. As the exhaust discharges above the catecorresponding parts in both views. arrester, it is obvious that thecinders will not Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of a sparkbe mixedwith water, which would cause them 7 5 arrester embodying our invention,showing to clog in the netting.

3o the arrangement of the same in asmoke-box; Having thus described ourinvention, we and Fig. 2 is a plan view of the arrester. claim as newand desire to secure by Letters Referring to the drawings, l designatesthe Patentsmoke-box of a locomotive, and 2 the front l. Aspark-arrester, comprising a casing 8o flue-sheet, through which theiiues 3 pass. having an inclined lower wall, the said casing 3 5 Thespark-arrester consists of a casing combeing extended from thefine-sheet of a boiler prising a front portion 4 and a rear portion 5.and into the smoke-box, a netting arranged These parts are securedtogether by bolts or in the top of the casing, a hood of netting anyother suitable means, and the rear porhinged over the first-namednetting and an 85 tion is bolted to the flue-sheet and surrounds exhaustleading through the casing and ter- 4o the central fines, as clearlyshown in the minating at a point below the top plane of drawings. Thetop portion of the casing from said hood, substantially as speoied. theflue-sheet slants horizontally to the noz- 2. A spark-arrester,comprising a casing zle, and the sides and bottom are transverselyhaving a slanting or inclined top, and an up- 9o curved and taperedupward andforward, thus wardly and forwardly inclined bottom, the

45 providing an inclined lower wall which serves said arrester beingattached to the fine-sheet as a deflector to force the sparks andcinders of a boiler and surrounding the boiler-fines, a toward theoutlet sieve material G, arranged netting arranged over an opening atthe for ward portion of the top of the casing, a connaines to thisspecification in the presence of Vex hood of netting material hingedover the two subscribing Witnesses. first-named netting, and anexhaust-nozzle WESLEY P. ALLEN. extended up through the bottom Wall ofthe 5 easing and through the top Wall thereof and Witnesses:

terminating below the top piane of said hood. WILLIAM B. CHILDERS, Intestimony whereof We have signed our i EDWARD L. MEDLER.

JOHN E. H. BROVVNE.

